The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-10-27
A TEMPEST IN 4 TEA-POT

p. m.
A TEMPEST IN Il TEAPOT
The great fuss kicked up over the
Minneapolis Tribune's article on the
president and Mrs. Cleveland is a pO-
litical move. In the first place the
Tribune is u Minneapolis paper. and of
Course the papers of st. Paul rage
about it. The q lobe, however, should
be the last one t. say Il word. 1t was
guilty of u worse Offrnse against decen-
cy than the Tribune is charged with,
publishing and commenting thereon
with great g,stO the dirty story put in
circulation against the wife of Jas. e..
Blaine. IN fact nearly every demo-
cratic paper in the state followed the
Globe. The principal object in the
present fuss over the Tribune editorial
is to make political capitalist. James
Journal.
The ''great fuss" is simply con-
temptible from one end to the other.
It. was foolish and contemplate in the
''boy" or ''boys" of the Tribune to
write and publish the article, and it is
equally foolish and contemplate to
burn any body in effigy, talk of tar and
feathers, etc.. and for newspapers all
over the country to frown and pretend
to be very ''seyere" upon the Tribune.
1t is especially contemplate in Repub-
lican papers to join with Democratic
papers in this terrible pelting "nd pep
pering of the Tribune.
Democratic papers, indeed! talking
about insulting women and abusing
the ''chief magistrate!'' When Lin
coin was running for his second term,
the abuse heaped upon him by the
democratic papers was the most out
rageous ever known in the history of
journalism, and his wife, 1.-THE first
lady of the land" was denounced as a
silly lunatic, etc. General Grant was
abused hundred fold more by demo-
cratic papers than ever Cleveland has
been by republican papers, and his
wife and family were not spared. but
every ''family" scandal that could be
found or invented was used.
All this "virtuous indignation"
from the papers would be laughable if
it were not disgusting. This is especi'
ally so of the democratic papers, which
have. from time immemorial, been Civ.
en- to publishing scandal and slander,
and to fighting political campaigns up
on the line of personal abuse OF the op.
position.
The attacks of Republican papers
upon President Cleveland as too bad q
man to be loved or married by re-
fined woman is as disgusting and hypo.
critical as anything in the whole mess.
The assumption that "Frankie." the
first lady in the land" and all that.
is 80 too, too utterly lovely etc.. etc.,
to be above anything but silly society
adulation, is just as sickish as any If
it. The suggestions of the Tribune
to the effect that this very, very fine
lady of the land. having made her bed
in the White House with such bad,
bad sort of president, must now lie in
that same bed regardless of conse-
quences, and of such virtuous opinion
as the Tribune's, all this, too, is silly
and hypocritical Then the v0ciferous.
obstreporous, fox. x.hound yelp and howl
Of the newspapers on the track of the
Tribune for this ''insult!'' to a woman,
IA woman, mind you, and a president
ess at that,) all this is hypocritical, in
sincere and ungenuine. 1t is put on
and done from political, business, OF
personal motives.
We are sorry that Mr.. Blethen, who
had nothing to do with the article, has
been 80 numerically treated by his
brother journalists. (''Brother" jour
nalists sounds ridiculous in this in
stance, for certainly savage enemies
could not do worse.)
Since Joe Howard published the IA
nous ''boeus war dispatch probably
no journalist has received such q scor
ing. .. .....
what the Tribune set should have
dohe was this: stand together and not
tell who did it. The paper is RESPONSE
bic, not the particular editor. This
would have been the case on the n. Y
Sun or any such paper.